The NFC playoff system is BS

[Bill Lumbergh]

You have terrible teams like Minnesota in the playoffs while my Bills are out with a record of 9-7. It's not the Bills' fault that they're in the toughest division in the toughest conference.

Wild-cards should be league-wide, not conference-wide. And maybe mix the divisions up a bit too.

Seattle is in the easiest division in the NFC(and the whole NFC save for Philly and Atlanta is weak), and they can't even win more than 9 games. They suck.

And so does Minnesota. They lost 7 of their last 10 for christ's sake.

Ok. Bills rant over.

[politicaholic]

1. Sure, the Seahawks suck, but they're so hard to love without bones...

like this.

You've seen your team in a superbowl, but we football fans in Seattle had to sit around and watch Jim Kelly tank, what, four years in a row?

Your bitterness is justified, but lets not get nasty.

[RobertSeattle]

2. Them there are the rules!

You don't want some kind of Do-Over like Non-Governor Elect Dino "Revote" Rossi wants do you?

[DaveinMD]

3. this goes in cycles

you can't have it league wide because of the schedule discrepencies. Buffalo had a chance to make it, they blew their chance. It sucks when its your team, but it happens. I remember the Giants doing the same in 1988.

[TroubleMan]

4. Hold on .....if Buffalo won last week, they would be in the playoffs.

So you can't complain about them not being in.

And if there were NFL-wide wild cards, what conference would they play in for the playoffs.

Then you face the possibility of two NFC teams or two AFC teams facing each other in the Super Bowl, and that's not right either.

[MrSlayer]

5. Hmm, maybe they should have beaten the SECOND AND THIRD STRING.

Pittsburgh had their twos and threes in that game and they still couldn't win? That's pretty bad.

The NFC does suck right now outside of the Eagles but the NFL isn't going to cross conferences for playoff seeds. If you recall, it was the AFC putting in 8-8 teams while the NFC was dominating about 10 or so years ago. Hell, there was an 18 year period where the AFC didn't win a Super Bowl at all. It's cyclical.

[HuckleB]

6. Them's the breaks.

The Bills shouldn't have been in the Super Bowl four straight years either, but they were because the AFC sucked back then, while the NFC always had the toughest three or four teams, only one of which could actually make the big game.

It's the way the league is set up, much like every other major league sport.

No more whining, please.

Oh, and Green Bay won ten games (including 9 of its last 11), just for the record.

[Champ]

7. It's the same system as the AFC - I know the reason for the lopsidation

Interesting fact, after going 1-5. Buffalo's next 10 games featured their 4 NFC team matchups of the season which they went 4-0(NFC West)

16 teams, 4 division winners, 2 wildcards. They have 64 interconference games throughout the season and the AFC dominated in those matchups. Which is why the AFC had winning teams that were left out and the NFC had 2 .500 teams in. Atleast a loosing team didn't make it. NFC has about 8 teams equal in talent below Green Bay, Philly, Atlanta, and Minnesota(Offensive talent seperates Minn from the rest of the lower pack).
NFC is older, has more teams in need of a starting QB: Cardinals, Cowboys, Redskins, Chicago, and San Francisco as opposed to just Miami, Cleveland, and Oakland. That resulted in A LOT of low scoring defensive struggles between NFC teams. Coaches, the whole league is filled with new or coaches that have only been in the league awhile. They haven't stuck with coaches like AFC teams such as Pittsburgh, New England, Denver, Baltimore even through years when they failed on high expectations. There are many reasons but those are the basics, AFC is clearly loaded with teams with more talent and consistency. NFC is filled with teams with aging, lack of talent in certain positions, and(or) developing talent.

[WilliamPitt]

8. The NFC just spherically sucks

With the exception of three or four notable teams, the NFC is a disaster area.

[Bill Lumbergh]

11. Yah

F the NFC.

It's so Republican

[hijinx87]

9. you're RIGHT !

what we need is a BCS-type system in the NFL, not this playoff bullshit.

[Mojambo]

10. LOL. Good one. n/t

[sportndandy]

12. For years the AFC was better than except always lost the big one.

Year after year through the eighties the and into the ninties the AFC had great teams who would knock each other off and play the only good team from the NFC and lose. Niners one year, Skins another, Giants another. Somehow no matter how good the AFC teams were during the regular season they would always blow up in the super bowl. The Broncos, the Bills, the Bengals, the Patriots. I expect a return to those good old days this year.

[AmericanErrorist]

13. The Wild Card is pointless

now that both conferences have gone to 4 divisions.

[CatholicEdHead]

14. Not after this weekend

3 out of 4 road teams WON! Jets, Seahawks and Vikings all pulled upsets of the home teams.